group chats > forums, tbh. as great as RMBVA is as a community and forum, platforms like discord have way too many advantages over this format. the community is still very active, but just in a different place. a number of us primarily use discord instead of the site.

A small number of good opinions>>> a bunch of people shouting at each other getting nowhere.

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Any reference to a movie where you state exactly what happened in that movie without changing it

it's a good group on discord so I check in there. Some of the better posters from here, so that's the positive. Also people seem to actually get to know each other more over there. But I'm a forum guy too tbh. I like to check in once every day or two, those guys have a running convo impossible to keep up with I had to mute the channel it was too much tbh. Salute to the discord tho good people, I'll keep poppin in every now and then maybe do another battle down the road.

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someone explain to me how having your little sister's kiddiepictures is an insult?

it's a good group on discord so I check in there. Some of the better posters from here, so that's the positive. Also people seem to actually get to know each other more over there. But I'm a forum guy too tbh. I like to check in once every day or two, those guys have a running convo impossible to keep up with I had to mute the channel it was too much tbh. Salute to the discord tho good people, I'll keep poppin in every now and then maybe do another battle down the road.

We need you on another card homie... Best bar ever said to Riffic was the “queens under pressure” shit

For the record, I totally understand if any of you dislike the idea of discord and are 100% from that forum cloth. The only reason we constantly promo the discord is because of the amount of people that consistently are upset with the forum not being active enough. All the promo is usually done in threads like this but anybody who fucks with the forum should definitely keep it poppin

same here. message boards are a great platform to me like i dont even care to try to get used to something new with people i don't know in real life lol

yeah. i also don't think discord is anything like a forum either.

the good thing about a forum is you can more or less choose what discussions you want to follow. like if i wanna see the discussion on Arcane vs. Caustic I hop in that thread. If I'm offline for a few days that thread is still there and easy to look through and respond to. Contrast that with discord...if I wanna see the discussion on Arcane vs. Caustic, I have to scroll through thousands of messages and parse out the ones that are relevant...if I want to respond to them, the conversations probably long over.

discord is good for discussing things in the moment, but you gotta be there in that moment to do that.

the good thing about a forum is you can more or less choose what discussions you want to follow. like if i wanna see the discussion on Arcane vs. Caustic I hop in that thread. If I'm offline for a few days that thread is still there and easy to look through and respond to. Contrast that with discord...if I wanna see the discussion on Arcane vs. Caustic, I have to scroll through thousands of messages and parse out the ones that are relevant...if I want to respond to them, the conversations probably long over.

discord is good for discussing things in the moment, but you gotta be there in that moment to do that.

i feel you on that.
in today's age though discussions (on the internet, not just in battle rap) are pretty short-lived. best thing you can do is just hop in VC at a good time and try to steer the topic one way. ofc the downside to that is that its not recorded, which was the best part of forums. Read one thread and see everybody's opinion. The upside though is that back-and-forth arguments are much easier to settle and certain nuances in battle rap are more easily said via voice than text.

Seriously though, I dont even know what discord is. I fuck with this forum heavy, but a new wave can't be ignored. Can any advantageous discord features be made to this forum?

it was a originally an app that meant to overtake TeamSpeak / Ventrilo / Skype for gamers, since its voice chat interface was much better.
its now evolved into another form of social media.

on discord conversations about battles happen much faster, but they arent recorded so most people miss out on the consensus of opinions. answering the question "what do most people think about T-Top vs JC" is pretty difficult.
forums are more topic-focused, since in one thread you'll have 100 comments about the same battle/event, whereas in discord, its just a slew of whatever people are talking about at the moment, of who's online at the moment. it makes going into details a lot easier though.

I can have a back and forth with 3 other people about Rounds 1 and 2 of T-Top vs JC and breakdown the best bars within half an hour, where as on on a forum that would have taken weeks. discord is dope though cuz through voice chat we get to know each other a bit better (and faster) and its less of just "screen name and opinion" but we know personalities better also with Voice chat there's more time to do other shit like have our own voice battles or just chat about random stuff like movies or the NBA.

it is sadder what happened to OTBVA. I am trying to be more active here now

What the hell happened to that site? The site format looks borderline 2005. Did they not learn from the RapMusic.com fiasco that if you change the layout of the site without briefing or testing, that shit can get ugly in terms of traffic?